Nortel Alteon Switched Firewall 6414

Nortel Alteon Switched Firewall 6414 ... heightened corporate threat environment. The new platform offers improved port density and the processing power to perform application-layer inspection while ensuring firewall performance never impacts network throughput, even under the most demanding conditions, e.g., processing traffic with small packet sizes.

Representing the evolution of Nortel Networks leading-edge "switch-accelerated firewalls, " the ASF 6414 features an Accelerator platform based on the Alteon Application Switch. It offers integrated Layer 4-7 content filtering, comprehensive Dos protection, and IDS load balancing within the Accelerator OS, along with the Layer 2-7 security provided by the Check Point NG with Application Intelligence stateful inspection engine.